Chronicle of Romeo Akbar Walter: An undercooked thriller

The year is 1971, when relations between India, Pakistan, and East Pakistan were tense and decisive events would determine the future of the three regions. In this state of mind, the Indian intelligence network, placed under the supervision of R & AW (Research and Analysis Division), reinforced its presence on the other side of the border.

As head of R & AW's department, Srikanth Rai (Jackie Shroff), a man's taste for the finer things in life also makes sense of recruiting for the right candidates. He identifies and recruits a bank teller named Rehmatulla Ali, aka Romeo (John Abraham).

Rai thinks the intense young man is a well-motivated disguise master to prioritize his country.

Writer-director Robbie Grewal does not know it. to correctly build the process of identifying and recruiting Romeo, and he does not dwell on the formation and transformation of Romeo in Akbar, under the tutelage of Rai.

With his hair cut and eyes covered with kohl, Akbar slips into Pakistan and plunges. in the mission. Abraham internalizes the confusion of Romeo and is impbadive enough when he understands the difficult situation of the character.

Things get warmer in all three geographic areas and, shortly after, Akbar finds himself plunged in the middle of a plan that would put the regions on the path of violent conflict.

But what happens when a spy is about to get burned? How does the current human relationship separate from the long-term goal? What happens to his own family relationships? Grewal tries to explore the complexities and duality of a life covered with lies and deceptions, but the story, which is based on real events, relies heavily on tropes and remains superficial and immobile.

Sikander Kher (as a Pakistani colonel), Raghubir Yadav (as a colleague of Romeo) and Shroff offer a respite in a very detailed but unconvincing scenario.

Agents make highly questionable decisions (like spies having delicate conversations on highly clbadified issues in a public bar), and several plot points go by without explanation. The songs are amber lights in an already jerky tale that wastes an opportunity rich in potential.